Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

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PrimoVitorio said:
Ok so I guess I want to explain what is exactly making me insecure when going through this thread. I have one tiny room to myself, I'm still with my relatives but I'm focusing on moving out within the next few years.

I mentioned having my old toys like pixar cars stuff.
That isn't all I have.
  1. Two cube organizers of a mixture of pixar cars toys, star wars, Thunderbirds, matchbox. (about this size)View attachment 2867777
  2. A couple of airfixes, an old scaletrix with 90s era DTM cars given to me by my dad, and one scaletrix with the 2009 Brawn GP and Mclaren
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3. Tracy island from like 15 years back. I had two (don't ask why I don't know) but got rid of the unboxed one. I can imagine displaying this somewhere with the thunderbirds toys as Thunderbirds seems like model trains, its something your grandad would love.View attachment 2867697

4. A collection of books on motorsport, pokemon, doctor who, a Richard Hammond autobiography and top gear magazines. These fill the small gap between my bed and closet.

5. Work books from my old schools, I'd say these are personal items on my personal history.

6. Teddys like beanies to a few I got from elderly neighbours. One I think I've had my entire life. These are in front of my books.

I guess I'm asking how to keep this stuff without it looking weird or a consoomer shrine when I get my own place.
I was thinking about how people who collect die casts have glass display cases or something to put them in, I think I'll do that with my matchbox/cars/ect.

This is out of genuine enjoyment and of genuine sentimental value. I've gone through my stuff on what I want to give to others.
I may think about giving away more.

I won't derail the thread any more so any messages, please do so in private conversations. I've messed up the thread already, I don't want to do it any more.
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Donate your shit to people children living in poverty and find a more productive focus for your autism.
 
I think the line between collecting and consooming is very thin and blurry, but from what I've seen from the consooming cows on here, there are some traits / reasons that can contribute to being a consoomer.

1: Thoughtlessness. There's no self control on spending their money, it's a serious compulsion of "buy immediately", even if puts them in a position of not making rent / mortgage.

2: FOMO. In honesty, most "collectors editions" or limited runs of most mainstream products are not that, and are easily sourced 6 months to a year after being produced. Consoomers would be the ones in line on release day for their product.

3: Buying for the sake of buying something. One of the main cows I follow on here does this constantly with Tablets. Buys a tablet / electronic for that dopamine rush, gets depressed once it wears off, and sells it, only to buy another a week / month later.

I generally hold people who have a focused / curated collection of items are much more highly than those who just have everything they can get their hands on, mainly because people who have a restrained collection know a -lot- more about their passion that someone who just buys everything for the sake of having it.

"I collect comics, here's 20 boring longboxes filled with comics, good luck finding anything" vs "I have a handful of comics that are considered must-reads by everyone, and a few on display"
 
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Consooming, like autism, is a spectrum. At the far end of that spectrum lies Bob Chipman. The more of a consoomer you are, the more you will find yourself transmogrifying into Bob.
  1. Has no ambition in life other than consooming Next Product
  2. Has never learned anything at all, as consooming is interesting enough
  3. Isn't actually interested in details of the product, such as how it is made, or the history of it, only in consooming it
  4. Unable to critically assess the product. It is the product, and he consooms it, therefore it is flawless.
  5. Cannot appreciate or find humor in the ultimate triviality of the product, whether it's a movie about a flying man in tights or a game about pretending to be a magical elf on the hunt for an ogre's treasure.
  6. Considers the amount of product consoomed to be an important achievement
  7. Becomes angry when others do not consoom the product or get excited about next product
 
Personally, I don't think rooms quantify a consoomer or not that well.
As I stated before, you may have a guy with a mancave with star wars or whatever and generally be well rounded and not a consoomer.
They may have a lot of income and a lot of room they want to add some of their interests with.
I think when you have people saying an example isn't that bad, it isn't consooming.

For something to be consoomer tier it needs to be agreed upon by everyone.
That's why NoReturns examples are so good, they are very clearly hoarding or consooming and hardly anyone objects to them.

To me, you can't call someone a consoomer by what their room looks like unless its one of those horror shows where they fill their kitchen with stuff. Or when you can't walk through it without toppling something over.

The consoomer meme, at its heart is not about people buying items of their interests. It is an attitude.
Someone wanting to have a nice bit of their room dedicated to star wars or another of their interests isn't consooming per se.

It is treating brands as a religion.

MovieBob isn't the face of consooming because he has stuff. He's the face of consooming because he treats brands as religions and gets his views, opinions, quotes ONLY from movies.

Most people do what Bob does, but not to the extent he does. They'll quote movies, find some nice ideas or something in movies, they'll be fans. They'll discuss the philosophies in movies. They'll like a character for their traits. But it isn't their entire being.

They have original opinions, they themselves made for themselves.
Bob just gets them from brands. He can't compare anything in the real world to anything other than what he consooms.
It isn't that bad when its every now and then, but when its all you do, that is consooming.

You can admire Optimus Prime for his wisdom, or Batman for his fight for Gotham, but if all your heroes are fictional, that is consooming.

Everyone buys stuff to decorate their house with their interests. As long as they can afford it, store/display it somewhere and they genuinely want it that isn't consooming. When you are buying excessively, that is consooming. When your entire house is of one brand, well yeah thats consooming, but a variety of stuff from your various interests isn't.

When judging a room, you have to ignore your personal prejudges. Some may think Star Wars is for kids and a room of it is childish.
If I look at a room or collection of say, My Little Pony, I find that weird. But that's my personal opinion and view on things. Not everyone is going to agree on my view.

When I look at examples I judge it by a number of things.
1. Is it clean
2. Is it organized
3. Can you walk through it
4. Does it look like the house looks relativity normal.
5. Are there any personal photos/items/so forth

If a room ticks these boxes, it is fine with me. I think a room can still be fine without ticking #5 if it isn't too excessive.
An example is my old neighbors. They were into sci-fi and Star Trek. There was a lot of Star Trek stuff, but at the same time it was countered by personal items and the Star Trek stuff was not on the floor or whatnot.

There was furniture, cabinets, the regular stuff, and the Star trek models and Star Trek stuff was put in places that made it look nice. At the same time, she had old photos of relatives and family.
If someone was say a motorsports fan, they may have diecasts, nice paintings, photos or souvenirs such as tickets or programs of their first race, or races they've been to. That will be balanced out by personal items and furniture.

Another example is my friends reletive. She had a lot of die casts in her living room, but they were in display cabinets/display cases on either side of her TV and some I think elsewhere. It was clean, pleasing to the eye and easy to get round the room

Now when it comes to say, model trains, because some sets are so big, they may fill up an attic or basement. I think that needs to be debated. I'm fine with them, but when exactly does that stuff go wrong?
 
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Accept Only Substitutes said:
This is the chair in question btw. It's pretty ugly and looks uncomfortable.


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Thirty years ago they sold a laminated-wood-seated version with painted black leg(s)—for $19.99, if I remember right. I do remember it was the best cheap chair you could buy and everyone I knew who was broke but not a permanent loser had some.

Becoming a clichéd camwhore prop is the fate of everything I love (except my penis).
 
talk sh1t said:
I don't want to be mean, but does this guy have some kind of vague disorder? The way he speaks reminds me of a cross between Goofy and Mark Zuckerberg.
And I can't even describe how depressing that video is. A hollow plastic adult visiting a hollow plastic park. In a way I feel sad for him being all alone like that. But even though there are people all over the place during the whole video and it's mostly outside on a sunny day, I get this eery feeling like staring into a supernatural void of some kind.
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He's probably on the spectrum, wouldn't surprise me if he was Autistic/Aspberger's (is that even a diagnoses they give out anymore?). In any case he's socially maladjusted whether he's actually a puzzle piece or not.
 
talk sh1t said:
I don't want to be mean, but does this guy have some kind of vague disorder? The way he speaks reminds me of a cross between Goofy and Mark Zuckerberg.
And I can't even describe how depressing that video is. A hollow plastic adult visiting a hollow plastic park. In a way I feel sad for him being all alone like that. But even though there are people all over the place during the whole video and it's mostly outside on a sunny day, I get this eery feeling like staring into a supernatural void of some kind.
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I reacted on that his skin is so fucking pink/red. He reminds of a pig, and he really wanted to get across that he's a messy eater. That was a bit weird/nasty.
 
talk sh1t said:
I don't want to be mean, but does this guy have some kind of vague disorder? The way he speaks reminds me of a cross between Goofy and Mark Zuckerberg.
And I can't even describe how depressing that video is. A hollow plastic adult visiting a hollow plastic park. In a way I feel sad for him being all alone like that. But even though there are people all over the place during the whole video and it's mostly outside on a sunny day, I get this eery feeling like staring into a supernatural void of some kind.
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Maybe he's just a hylic
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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
He's probably on the spectrum, wouldn't surprise me if he was Autistic/Aspberger's (is that even a diagnoses they give out anymore?). In any case he's socially maladjusted whether he's actually a puzzle piece or not.
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He's got a companion in this video so he's not completely alone:
 
Canoodler said:
How are people not embarrassed when they post shit like this? Did consoomers fail to develop the part of the brain responsible for feeling shame?
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I can see a picture like that getting a ton of updoots on plebbit. They do it for validation and they usually get it, they they have to do it again for a new hit each time trying even harder to milk those pointless brownie points
 
Welcome to the zoo! Today's exhibits in "Taking Things Too Far"
Plants
Star Wars Disney Park
Funkos
Random Chinese plasticcrap that is being promoted on a Chinese spyware app completely by coincidence
 
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